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Ubuntu's First 100 Paper Cuts, Some Bandaged

06-24-2009, 06:00 AM

Phoronix: Ubuntu's First 100 Paper Cuts, Some Bandaged

Last week the first ten Ubuntu paper cuts were exposed via Launchpad, which are small annoying usability problems with Ubuntu (and upstream applications) that are quite easy to address but simply have not been carried out. In time for the release of Ubuntu 9.10, Canonical hopes to have 100 of these "paper cuts" addressed...

This is a great idea. I've been contributing feedback for one of the papercuts (nautilus doesn't single click to rename ... and I prefer it not to either :P it's an annoying "feature" of Windows and I think KDE too). Overall what I've seen is very constructive, and should make Ubuntu 9.10 something more polished and very nice.

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This is a great idea. I've been contributing feedback for one of the papercuts (nautilus doesn't single click to rename ... and I prefer it not to either :P it's an annoying "feature" of Windows and I think KDE too). Overall what I've seen is very constructive, and should make Ubuntu 9.10 something more polished and very nice.

Fancy that, I've also posted on this paper cut (we agree, rename-on-click is very annoying).

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I think this is doing more harm than good. There's the rename thing, just because Windows does it, and also the proposal to make double clicking on archives auto-extract it into a new folder. I want it to open in archive manager first so I can examine the files and maybe extract only a few rather than all of them, and have a right-click menu to one-step extract.

I don't want a delete warning when I'm only moving to Trash; I don't want icons on the Open With menu and I don't want Ctrl-Alt-Backspace off by default (which sin't a papercut but was "fixed" for Jaunty under similar usability arguments).

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I think this is doing more harm than good. There's the rename thing, just because Windows does it, and also the proposal to make double clicking on archives auto-extract it into a new folder. I want it to open in archive manager first so I can examine the files and maybe extract only a few rather than all of them, and have a right-click menu to one-step extract.

I don't want a delete warning when I'm only moving to Trash; I don't want icons on the Open With menu and I don't want Ctrl-Alt-Backspace off by default (which sin't a papercut but was "fixed" for Jaunty under similar usability arguments).

Sounds like the majority of what you want to do is make Gnome like KDE.

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Maybe I've simply missed it, but do you know what context-menu option I'd like to see for Thunar/Nautilus/Konqueror/Dolphin?

"Dump Folder Here"

Basically, it's like "Extract Archive Here", but instead of extracting the contents of an archive into the current folder, "Dump Folder Here" would basically empty the whole contents of a sub-folder into the current folder. (and then delete the sub-folder)

As far as I'm aware, no desktop environment under Linux, Mac, or Windows has this feature.

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Maybe I've simply missed it, but do you know what context-menu option I'd like to see for Thunar/Nautilus/Konqueror/Dolphin?

"Dump Folder Here"

Basically, it's like "Extract Archive Here", but instead of extracting the contents of an archive into the current folder, "Dump Folder Here" would basically empty the whole contents of a sub-folder into the current folder. (and then delete the sub-folder)

As far as I'm aware, no desktop environment under Linux, Mac, or Windows has this feature.